Bugatti Vision Gran Turismo marks the end of an era for the firm, as the idea previews the design language of the Veyron’s long-awaited successor

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Bugatti has released the first pictures of its concept car for the Vision Gran Turismo project.

The concept is actually described as previewing the next phase of the company’s design language, which will first be seen on a production car with the launch of the Veyron’s successor, currently dubbed Chiron, in 2017.

Bugatti says the concept presents “the brand-new form in addition to design language developed by the brand to celebrate the next chapter in its history following the end of the Veyron era.”

Production of the regular Veyron recently came to an end with the La Finale special edition, which was unveiled at the Geneva motor show back in March.

Announcing the concept, Bugatti design boss Achim Anscheidt said: “Bugatti’s design DNA has reached a brand-new stage in its evolution. In view of the nature of the project, our concept car for ‘Vision Gran Turismo’ will be exaggerated in addition to extremely performance-oriented.

“Even so, the progressive design language will give an impressive demonstration of the path to be taken by Bugatti design over the next few years.”

While keeping the Veyron’s overall proportions, the Vision Grand Turismo project features redesigned front in addition to rear bumpers, having a more prominent Bugatti grille at the front. the vehicle’s most distinguishing external feature is actually its large fixed rear wing. An all-digital instrument cluster can be seen inside alongside a race-inspired steering wheel.

The Chiron was recently spotted in disguised prototype form at the Los Angeles airport, prompting speculation that will VIP visitors to the Pebble Beach Concours were being shown the vehicle for the 1st time. Power for the vehicle is actually likely to come through a heavily revised type of the Veyron’s 8.0-litre W16 engine, producing as much as 1479bhp.

Bugatti boss Wolfgang Dürheimer said: “Bugatti is actually the entire world’s most exclusive super sports car brand in addition to Bugatti cars are only available to an extremely little group of automobile connoisseurs.

“At the same time Bugatti is actually admired in addition to loved by countless people throughout the entire world. We highly appreciate that will enthusiasm. The ‘Bugatti Vision Gran Turismo’ will make our brand available to them as well as to gamers in addition to high-performance aficionados throughout the entire world, only very few of whom will be able to afford a real Bugatti. They can all benefit through the success of our brand. that will is actually a project for our fans.”

The Vision Gran Turismo project was announced in 2013, when series creator Kazunori Yamauchi invited 28 vehicle manufacturers to submit designs for their dream two-seat sports car. Designs to be revealed as part of the project include cars through Aston Martin, Nissan, Mercedes-Benz, Renault in addition to Toyota.

Bugatti’s Vision Gran Turismo concept will be seen in full-scale form at the Frankfurt motor show later that will month. Players will be able to download in addition to drive the Vision Gran Turismo concept inside the coming months.

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